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Spiritual sickness troubles American medicine. Through a death-denying culture, medicine has gained enormous power-an influence it maintains by distancing itself from religion, which too often reminds us of our mortality. As a result of this separation of medicine and religion, patients facing serious illness infrequently receive adequate spiritual care, despite the large body of empirical data demonstrating its importance to patient decision-making, quality of life, and medical utilization. This secular-sacred divide also unleashes depersonalizing, social forces through the market, technology, and legal-bureaucratic powers that reduce clinicians to tiny cogs in an unstoppable machine.
Hostility to Hospitality is one of the first books of its kind to explore these hostilities threatening medicine and offer a path forward for the partnership of modern medicine and spirituality. Drawing from interdisciplinary scholarship including empirical studies, interviews, history and sociology, theology, and public policy, the authors argue for structural pluralism as the key to changing hostility to hospitality.
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"I received the book in my professional capacity. Very impressed.
This is hope for people of faith who currently see their most important values ignored or rejected by the current, hegemonically-secular medical philosophy---a philosophy imposed on their individual healthcare professionals. Secularism is here forced to come to terms with its identity as one more spirituality, on all fours with the others, and not the neutral perspective it purports to be.
It will be an invaluable aid to healthcare professionals as well, who themselves would often wish to care for their patients more holistically. Many sense something is very wrong with the modern medical system---a system attaining technical achievements unimaginable just a generation ago, on one hand, yet in a context of abject spiritual poverty, on the other hand, resulting in something less than the comprehensive health of their patients. This book gives voice to the experience of these professionals.
More important still, this book equips institutional leaders in healthcare with a compelling argument, presenting the need for systemic change, and a rough outline of the way forward. The industry itself, not merely individual healthcare providers, must change.
This is public reason at its best. The authors put their cards on the table as people of faith---orthodox Christians in the evangelical tradition. But the argument presented is one that people of many faiths can embrace. As can people not coming from any particular tradition of spirituality, who nonetheless wish to respect the holism of the patients and practitioners from such traditions. This is a step forward for the flourishing of ALL communities represented in the public square, and away from the disenfranchising hostility of secularism."
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Hostility to Hospitality Spirituality and Professional Socialization within Medicine 9780199325764 Medicine Health Science Books Reviews
- Although the separation between R/S (religion and spirituality) and modern medicine has been progressive and insidious over many decades, the Balboni's capture its past, origins and the resultant dispiriting. The secondary effects are documented including the connection to burnout amongst its professionals and the lack of R/S attention within hospitals and for terminal patients. This is a remarkable work, well documented and referenced. Its appearance from Harvard based scholars sets a milestone for modern medicine toward awareness of its cultural pathology in large measure mirrored by medicine's divorce from R/S. Their accounting of bio-scientific medicine as promoting a religion of imminence is an eye opening approach to our cultural situation. This courageous analysis is especially important for those involved with care taking whether physicians, nurses, health care managers or clergy.
- I received the book in my professional capacity. Very impressed.
This is hope for people of faith who currently see their most important values ignored or rejected by the current, hegemonically-secular medical philosophy---a philosophy imposed on their individual healthcare professionals. Secularism is here forced to come to terms with its identity as one more spirituality, on all fours with the others, and not the neutral perspective it purports to be.
It will be an invaluable aid to healthcare professionals as well, who themselves would often wish to care for their patients more holistically. Many sense something is very wrong with the modern medical system---a system attaining technical achievements unimaginable just a generation ago, on one hand, yet in a context of abject spiritual poverty, on the other hand, resulting in something less than the comprehensive health of their patients. This book gives voice to the experience of these professionals.
More important still, this book equips institutional leaders in healthcare with a compelling argument, presenting the need for systemic change, and a rough outline of the way forward. The industry itself, not merely individual healthcare providers, must change.
This is public reason at its best. The authors put their cards on the table as people of faith---orthodox Christians in the evangelical tradition. But the argument presented is one that people of many faiths can embrace. As can people not coming from any particular tradition of spirituality, who nonetheless wish to respect the holism of the patients and practitioners from such traditions. This is a step forward for the flourishing of ALL communities represented in the public square, and away from the disenfranchising hostility of secularism. - An excellent text that explores the development of our healthcare system and its evolving relationship with religious institutions. The Balboni's open by reviewing their personal research findings on spiritual needs in end of life cancer care. They then progress to discussing theological perspectives on the relationship between healing and religion. They close by proposing a new paradigm for partnership between medicine and religious/spiritual beliefs.
Throughout the text they gradually build a logical and linear case that a "spirituality of immanence" permeates modern medicine to the exclusion of alternative belief systems. They argue that an inevitable rise in unchecked and impersonal economic, bureaucratic, and technocratic forces has stripped medicine of its central patient-centered mission. By reintegrating a plurality of spiritual and religious voices, they hope that such forces can be kept in check and we can return hospitality to the hospital.
The text is versatile and will be equally appreciated by an introductory reader and an experienced audience. At times it can become technical (both in their theological and sociological analyses), but such passages are rare and do not detract from the central message. Although already very thorough, I found myself wishing that the authors had added a chapter further considering the potential for increased disparities in minority religious groups should their pluralistic model be enacted. Overall, however, an excellent read for anyone interested in the topic and I would highly recommend.
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